The Radiant Mission
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168. Why Your Hormones Are Out of Balance (and How to Fix It)
Heavy periods, PCOS, endometriosis, infertility—so many women are told to mask symptoms or remove organs without ever getting a clear why. We invited Dr. Vaughn, a traditional naturopath, to unpack a different path: find the root, relieve the burden, and let the body restore rhythm. From teen cycles and the birth control reflex to menopause and progesterone support, we connect the dots between food, light, toxins, and liver health in a way that’s practical and hopeful.
We get specific. Diet shifts do the heavy lifting: an 80 percent base of vegetables and fruit, seasonal eating, steady protein, and a firm break with refined sugar and seed oils can calm inflammation and reduce estrogen dominance. Morning sunlight in your eyes jump-starts hormone cascades, while blue light at night suppresses them. We talk testing that matters—Dutch for steroid hormones, urine and hair for BPA, glyphosate, mold, and metals—so you can stop guessing. Then we map a clear detox plan: far infrared sauna to mobilize, targeted binders to capture biotoxins and chemicals, and smart mineral support so you feel better, not worse.
We also dig into local care that’s often ignored. Vaginal ecology can be nourished with probiotic support, antimicrobial herbs, and for some, ozone therapy or yoni steaming to improve circulation and tissue health. Surgery may remove lesions, but it won’t remove causes. That’s why we highlight liver methylation with sulforaphane-rich broccoli extracts, methylated B vitamins, and sulfur sources like MSM, plus the overlooked role of iron—beef liver capsules are a potent ally for estrogen clearance. When needed, progesterone can be a lifesaver in early pregnancy or menopause; used wisely, it supports the body while deeper imbalances are corrected.
This conversation is equal parts story and strategy—real turnarounds from crippling cramps to quiet cycles, from long infertility to healthy pregnancies. If you’re ready to trade confusion for a map, tune in, take notes, and share with someone who needs hope. Subscribe, leave a review, and tell us: what’s the first change you’ll make this week?
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Welcome to the Radiant Mission Podcast. My name is Rebecca Toomey, and I am here with my awesome co-host and sister, Rachel Smith. Hey guys. We are on a mission to encourage and inspire you as you're navigating through this life and in your relationship with Christ. And today we are joined once again by the fantastic Dr. Vaughn to continue our health series. Welcome, Dr. Vaughn. Hello, thank you. And a quick reminder: if you are just joining for the first time, you gotta listen back because he has been on here for five episodes now. So definitely go back and listen to more about his story and what's going on over here at Spirit of Health. Dr. Von Lawrence is a traditional naturopath and iridologist. He's focused on helping people discover the root cause of their chronic illness. So, with that said, if you want to connect with him after this podcast, because you're going to want to, you can find him at spiritofhealthkc.com. You can also visit his store for a lot of the items that are going to help you clear up your problems at store.spiritofhealthkc.com. You can find him on Facebook at facebook.com forward slash spirit of health and on Instagram and YouTube at Spiritof Health KC. So we are so excited to have Dr. Vaughn back again. And this time we are going to be talking about women's health. Since the majority of the listeners now, because we've scared all the men away by talking about birth too much, we figure let's talk about women's health. It's a it's a big deal.
Rachel Smith:Maybe we should do an episode of men's health one day.
Rebecca Twomey:Bring the men back.
Rachel Smith:Yeah. Rebecca and I we joke because originally our heart for this podcast was for mothers. And we started our podcast talking about spiritual warfare. And we have had a lot of wonderful male listeners say, like, you guys keep saying that this podcast is for women, but I'm recommending it to all kinds of different men in my life. And we're like, oh, that's great. And then once we started talking about birth stories and breastfeeding, we lost a lot of men.
Rebecca Twomey:They all ran away, including our own dad, Dr. Vaughn. He said that our episodes were gross and he stopped listening. But uh he he's come back now. He circled back around. He actually texted me today, Rachel, that he really enjoyed uh the Passover episode. Okay. And he said he enjoys us when we're not talking about quote gross things, and that we are a lot of fun when we're not doing that. So hopefully hopefully dad is back listening.
Rachel Smith:Yeah, and and maybe we'll give you a men's health episode one day. Although he's probably not listening to this episode because it's titled Women's Health.
Rebecca Twomey:So, anyway, yeah, in our circles, we hear many stories. I mean, Rachel and I are talking to women every day about the things that I'm going to mention now. People that have really heavy periods, women that have endometriosis or PCOS or are experiencing infertility. It seems that women are in a battle sometimes when it comes to our health. And obviously, I can imagine that some of this is stemming from what we talked about last time with immune health, that there could be issues with the gut. There also could be issues with other chronic illnesses, especially I know in Rachel's case with secondary infertility, she had other stuff going on. But I'd like to start kind of by bringing it back to the earliest possible place. And that's when we start our periods. We're teenagers, obviously young or even pre-teenager. And it comes before you're ever going to have quote endometriosis or PCOS or infertility because you're like 11 years old. But I wish that I could go back in time to tell myself that having that having a period is normal, first of all. I wish I could have read that book, Taking Charge of Your Fertility when I was 12, so that I understood what I was going through was actually normal. Because I think that our society has made it not normal to bleed, which it is, to have periods. And their solution to heavy bleeding is often just put or put them on birth control. That's gonna fix the problem. You know, that's gonna fix everything, but really all it does is cause a slew of other issues. So just knowing that, you know, the period was new as a as a young girl, it's it's hard to get through. I also wish I could have told myself to take some evening prim nose primrose oil. That probably could have helped too, but I'm not giving medical advice. Dr. Vaughn, I really want to start with you by asking, you know, is this something that you run into often with women? I'm assuming, you know, grown women at this point, heavy periods or reports of endometriosis or anything like that. Is that something that you see often?
Dr. Vaughn:Yeah, all the above, all the time. I mean, I work mainly with women, kind of like you said, uh, you know, men, men will come in if they're dying or if their wife forces them to. I sometimes jokingly ask that question like, Did your wife make you come here? Yeah. So I so I literally like this is just funny that we're talking about this right now. I did a consultation with a man, our initial consultations are an hour and a half. He had a few questions, he got his questions answered in 30 minutes. He was done. I was like, Do you want to talk about anything else? We have another hour. He's like, No, I'm good.
Rebecca Twomey:He's like, I don't even want the time. Just I I gotta, I we're good.
Dr. Vaughn:Bottom line, get to the point. What do I do? So anyway, yeah. Uh I work with a lot of women. So, you know, if you work with a lot of women, of course, you're gonna deal with um menstrual cycles. It's just uh it's an important part of being a woman, it's part of how God designed women. It's actually a uh I've always said I love working with women, and when they have irregular cycles or issues with their menstrual cycle, it's actually a great gauge, it's a great indicator to see where women are in their health. And I have lots of stories. Uh, one story was a young gal uh just you know horrifically painful periods, and um and then she went a couple of months, and I remember she telling me that her menstrual cycle started and she didn't even know it until it started. Which if if you're a woman that's ever had menstrual cycle issues, you know that's like a life-changing event because usually you're debilitated, chronic pain, emotional mess for days, you know, before you even start to bleed. And I remember she said she she called her parents and told her, and literally her parents would not believe her because she's just had like chronic pain every cycle for like her whole life.
Rachel Smith:Wow.
Dr. Vaughn:So uh yeah, absolutely women can improve their menstrual cycles, and it's important because that's again, that's a sign of health, because God designed women for this specific purpose, and especially young women that are having problems with their cycle, it's a big deal because not only is it uh important to your health, but it's like if you're gonna have a future and you're gonna have kids and a family, like you wanna get your cycle right right now. Like, cool story. My wife so when we met, so we just uh we're 10 years in May. So this May, actually, next month will be 11 years that we've been married. Congratulations. Thank you. And when we met, she had not had a menstrual cycle in two years. Wow. Didn't know if she'd ever have kids, uh, was diagnosed with Hashimoto's and you know, we have three kids that are 10, 8, and 6. She's had a regular menstrual cycle for 10 years. Uh so yeah, I just love that. I love seeing women regain their cycle when they haven't had one, or if they're having pain or irregular cycles to improve it. And it's just yeah, I I actually find it a very fulfilling. Uh I don't know if that's the right word. What's the word? Anyway, I think it's a fulfilling thing to see you know women regulate in that area because of course, that's super cool. For like the future of humanity, right? So yeah, yeah, I mean, that was the word, it's rewarding.
Rebecca Twomey:Yeah, of course. The Lord designed us specifically this way, right? Like this is part of the this is part of how women were designed to go through this cycle, and I don't think that we're supposed to experience it in excruciating pain all of the time. So, what are some of the solutions or remedies or you know, things that women can do to reduce these problems, or is it just very different depending on a woman's situation?
Dr. Vaughn:Yeah, it depends because it it's definitely there's a lot going on, there's it's complicated oftentimes. Um I love telling stories. Testimonials are so powerful. I gotta tell my story. Sorry. Gal came to work for us, and her name was Hannah. Also her last name. But Hannah was like, I really want to come work for you guys. And she she'd been married five years, never been pregnant once in five years of marriage. And I said, Hannah, because we knew her, she was a friend, but like you can come work for us, but you're gonna get better, you're gonna get pregnant, you're gonna have kids, and you're gonna leave us. And I think we I mean, I can say this because it was true, like we had more faith than she did because she, you know, she hadn't been pregnant in five years. So she comes to work for us, horrible menstrual cramps, like she would miss work because her menstrual cramps were so bad. So worked on her health, did some cleansing. I specifically remember her during our lymphatic system cleanse because the lymphatic system is uh not often looked at in health, but it's crucial because that is the main uh sewer system of the body that dumps all the toxins and poisons out, and it's where stagnation occurs. So if you have stagnation in your lymphatic system, you know, you're gonna have problems. So she was doing our lymphatic system cleanse. It's a 21-day cleanse. She's like, I just felt like the Lord say I'm I wanted I should do it longer because I'm doing really good on it and I feel really good and I'm not having any cramps. And so she extended the lymphatic cleanse and then found out during the cleanse that she was pregnant.
Rachel Smith:Wow.
Dr. Vaughn:And so now her and her husband have two kids, a third on the way, and you know, so that was like a few years ago. Yeah. Yeah. I have so many of those kinds of stories. Yeah. So I think diet's huge. Um, I really, really think diet's huge. Uh, I have seen so many women regulate their menstrual cycles with the change of diet. You know, if you eat heavy diet and you eat lots of, you know, fried foods, fatty foods, sugar, starches, carbs, like kind of like the last episode we were talking about fermentation of the gut. You know, if if you live that kind of a lifestyle, eventually that's going to cause stagnation. And when you have stagnation, that's when you start to have irregular tissue growth, abnormal estrogen, um, stress is a big one because it suppresses uh cortisol suppresses progesterone. So you kind of got this cascade of things happening when you're not eating well and you're stressed out, and that's gonna cause hormonal problems. So I usually it's just I usually start with diet, and you know, diet's a whole super confusing thing, right? Uh but the the the basics of it is that this is just my like two minutes on diet because it it's it's it's a big topic, right? Um but I'm of the belief of 80% fruits and veggies. So veggies number one, fruits a close number two, but it also depends on the season. Like summer, you should be eating more fruit if you live in a tropical place. I believe in seasonal eating, but let's say 80% fruits and veggies, and then 20% you know, fats and protein, and you should be eating very minimal amounts of um sugars, starches, carbs, obviously, no fatty oils, the trans fats, the seed oils, all that, all the bad stuff we know of. But um, if if a woman has an irregular cycle, a heavy cycle, and she just starts eating lots of salads and you know, keeps it light, eat three meals a day, maybe and maybe kind of stop all the snacking. Um literally, that alone will take stress and burden off of the system, and they'll start having a regular cycle again. It can't it can be that simple. So I've seen that a lot. I've seen it.
Rebecca Twomey:Quit eating those sweet treats, huh?
Dr. Vaughn:Yeah, yeah. They're they're the the emotional comfort foods, you know, they feel good in the moment, and I understand that it's hard, but it just it it will it will keep you from reaching your goals. Absolutely.
Rebecca Twomey:Yeah, Rachel has this really fun story about when she was experiencing her infertility issues that and I'm just gonna throw Rachel into the bus a little bit and say, I told her to stop drinking wine. But when her uh her friend, who's a dietitian, told her, or was it I don't know if it was Paula or your other doctor?
Rachel Smith:It was Paula, yeah, because she was the first one who started helping me, and she's a functional nutritionist.
Rebecca Twomey:And she said, Rachel, you know, the first thing you need to do is she said the low-hanging fruit, the low-hanging fruit, and the one she was drinking was called low-hanging fruit.
Rachel Smith:Yeah, yeah. So she literally, it was like it was like a it was like a one of those cool God moments. It was such a prophetic moment, wasn't it? Yeah, it was the first conversation we were having about my hormonal issues that were you know revealed to me because I couldn't get pregnant and I got pregnant easily in the past. Yeah, and so she's a wonderful dietitian, and she was like, the first thing that I would say, the low-hanging fruit, is to cut out alcohol and wine, because she knew that I like drinking wine, right? And when she said that, I'm like, Paula, my favorite wine, the brand is literally called low hanging fruit. Like Lauren, yeah. But I will say, like, what you're saying, like it just resonates with me and my testimony so much too, that it was a long journey for me. But what you're saying about diet, I mean, it healed a lot of my body. And I I ended up doing um the paleo autoimmune protocol, which one thing I felt the Lord revealed to me early in the process, which the AIP diet is supposed to be limited time, like it's not like for life, because it's very restrictive initially until you introduce you know, possible inflammatory, you know, it's she means she couldn't eat pepper. Yeah, like it was literally take everything down to the bare bones that all I was eating was vegetables, fruit, meat, and the only oils were coconut oil, avocado oil, and olive oil.
Dr. Vaughn:So it took all basically what I just described. Exactly. Exactly.
Rachel Smith:What you just described, there were a little bit more extremes, like no pepper and nightshades and right, right, and and things that were took a lot more effort. But one thing I really realized that the Lord revealed to me early on is that this is the way that God created our bodies to function. That if you think back thousands of years ago, we didn't have all this junk, you know, processed foods and seed oils and refined sugar and all of these things that we do today. And they are what is contributing to our body's uh decay. So to really get back to the you know factory model settings is to eat like we were that's one of the reasons it's called the paleo diet, I guess. So it it and and just like the testimony you shared of your friend who came to work for you after three months of me doing this protocol, which also entailed a very, very intensive I mentioned it last time, herbal supplement protocol. I got my blood work back from my MP and she told me that my estrogen was better, it wasn't perfect, but it was better. My Epstein bar was in remission, the Lyme disease was completely gone. I started hysterically crying when she gave me this news because it was just so revealing that what I did worked, and we got off the phone, and then I felt weird that I started crying because that's not how I am, and I went and I took a pregnancy test, and for the first time in two years and hundreds of negative pregnancy tests, I had my first positive, and that was three months of changing my diet to what you're describing.
Dr. Vaughn:So amen. That's awesome. I love hearing that. Yeah, yeah, that's good. Yeah, a couple other uh you know things. Uh yeah, because I mentioned diet's important, and and um yeah, I think that's that's a good start, and that's huge. Um, hormones are regulated by light. So sunlight in your eyes every morning, walking, being outside, that actually starts the cascade of hormone production. You're gonna talk about lutinizing hormone and all these important hormones you need, they're all stimulated by light. So if sunlight stimulates hormone production and is crucial for fertility, what do you think has the opposite damaging effect?
Rebecca Twomey:Not having light, artificial light.
Dr. Vaughn:Blue light. There you go. Cell phones, laptops, you know, lights in inside buildings, those all do the opposite. They suppress hormone function. So light's a big one.
Rachel Smith:Um
Dr. Vaughn:There's a product I like that I've used for years, very successful. I don't know if you've heard of it. It's called Maca Harmony by NHI. But it's a maca-based product. They have uh they have one for women for normalizing their cycle, or if they're not having a cycle. And then they have one called Maca Life that's for women uh going through menopause, and then they have one called Maka Pause, that's like for post-menopause. And they're they're amazing. I had a friend of mine who couldn't get pregnant, and she changed her diet, got on the macha harmony, and you know, got got pregnant pretty quickly. So um there's good products out there. The one my wife took that I still use from time to time, it's called Restore, and um, it's by Herbally Grounded. And you take four capsules before bed. And my wife, so my wife now at that time we we weren't even dating. Like she was actually a patient of mine. Um, I know big taboo, right? But she uh she wasn't having a menstrual cycle. So I said, Hey, take this restore fortnight before bed. And she started having a menstrual cycle and had one ever since. Just taking one herbal formula.
Rachel Smith:Wow, that's great.
Dr. Vaughn:And she changed her diet too, because she was diagnosed Hashimoto so we got away from the gluten and you know, did some diet changes and stuff like that. So yeah, I think there's herbal supports huge. Uh, those are a couple products I really like. Yeah, I want to mention the light. And then yeah, I'm very thankful, and I know you did this too, uh, but the Dutch test, I do think the Dutch test is phenomenal for checking steroid hormones. Is a woman estrogen dominant? Is she uh deficient in progesterone? Because progesterone, just progesterone deficiency is a big reason women have irregular cycles, heavy periods, infertility. They their progesterone is low for a number of reasons. Why diet? Okay, because insulin will negatively impact progesterone, stress, because cortisol will suppress progesterone. So there's a lot of things happening in our world today with our diet and our stress that is suppressing progesterone. And then obviously, we all kind of know about estrogen dominance and all the things that can cause that xenoestrogens and that have this estrogen mimicking effect. Um, and I lab test for all that stuff. Like, but what I've had, I think I had two. Well, yesterday I had one, today I had one where women are hormone fertility kind of is their focus, and they were both really high in BPA. And one of them was over three times the toxic level of BPA. And you know, I can't know for sure, but I'm always looking for causation. So, you know, do you have uh a xenoestrogen or some estrogen mimicking compound in your body that can be causing two things? One, estrogen dominance, but also, you know, uh causing a progesterone deficiency. Bad combo.
Rebecca Twomey:Interesting. So do you cleanse that out? I mean, obviously, changing the diet is going to be something that you do and getting sunlight. Do you also recommend a cleanse for something like that when someone has BPA in their system? Can you cleanse out BPA?
Dr. Vaughn:Yeah, BPA can be cleansed. Uh, glyphosate, I'm seeing a lot, that is a bad guy for fertility. Uh, mold is a big one because these are all um endocrine disruptors. So they they they negatively damage the endocrine system. It's well known in the farming community to check your animals for mold if they're not having babies because it will uh suppress fertility. And so they they put things in the feed to kill the mold and then they'll start having babies again. Interesting. So, yeah, you mainly sweat them out. I'm a huge, huge fan of uh far infrared sauna. Uh I think it should be far infrared. Um, the one we use is called a therasage. Um, I don't know if you've heard of Therasage, but there's all these big box saunas and all these different companies that sell these big saunas. The therasage one is I recommend to all of my patients because better technology, it's way cheaper. It's like 1100 bucks. You have it in your home, you zip it up, your head's out. So, like I start every morning with the sauna and uh hot cold therapy. So, like I'll do sauna in the morning, sweat, and then hop in a cold bath. So that kind of therapy is really powerful. But for detoxing any kind of chemical, we'll call them an environmental toxin the herbicides, the pesticides, the BPA, the plasticizers, the glyphosate, all that stuff. Um, sweating them out is the best. So if you can sweat and take the right binder, it's really that simple. You can detox this stuff out of your body, and then that'll start to correct your natural, you know, hormone function, estrogen function, and all that.
Rebecca Twomey:We talked about binders a little bit last episode. So you're referring to something like clay, using clay as a binder, or no, something nope.
Dr. Vaughn:Yeah, I don't use I don't use clay or charcoal. Uh those are the traditional binders, and I use those for years.
Rebecca Twomey:Um, I'm sure those are more for stomach, like we talked about.
Dr. Vaughn:So for heavy metals, you would use a different binder. Use for allergies, they can be for different things, but yeah, I don't really use them for for other things.
Rebecca Twomey:Okay.
Dr. Vaughn:Um, I'm guessing, have you run across Cellcore? Cellcore biosciences?
Rebecca Twomey:Mm-mm.
Dr. Vaughn:Okay. They're pretty big deal in natural health, uh, but they have the absolute best binders on the market, period, hands down. Um, biotoxin binder binds mold and parasite toxins. H and t binder, heavy metal environmental toxins binds glyphosate proven. Had a gal whose glyphosate was 12 and six months sauna and take an HMET binder. Next time I tested her, it was 1.9.
Rebecca Twomey:Wow. Interesting.
Dr. Vaughn:Yeah, you can detox these things out of the body. Uh, Virad Kim binder works for viruses, um, radiation. So I use that one for uranium. So different, so a binder is a carbon. So activated charcoal is a carbon, but it's a spent carbon. And so you can take uh you probably maybe heard of humic and fulvic minerals. Okay, these are carbons and they're binders, uh, but they're specific. They they specifically bind specific toxins, okay, and they don't interfere with your uh your good you know, minerals and vitamins. They don't bind the things that you're supposed to have. You can actually take them with food, and it doesn't interfere with anything. Okay. And so, yeah, I love taking the right binder. So sweating and taking the right binder, and then I'll mention one more thing, just because I'm a huge fan, is the ion detox foot baths really, really work. And we just got in a new one because I'm always researching, always looking for the best thing. Got one mind-blowing, that they have a patent on it because toxins, it was believed, are all positively charged. So you need negative ions. If you've heard of negative ionization, you need negative ions to grab the positively charged molecules and pull them out. Well, it turns out that many toxins are negatively charged, and there's even a term called gram-negative bacteria. And so, because some toxins are negatively charged, you actually need to ionize them with positive ions. And so I can actually adjust my foot bath to detox out exactly what a person has in their body. So if they have glyphosate, which is negatively charged, I can pull it out with positive ions. Endotoxins, which are the Lyme toxins, are actually also all gram negative and they need positive ionization. So, anyway, there's all kinds of like really cool tools out there. Um, I guess my point is that find out what toxins you have in your body causing uh hormone disruption and help them come out with foot baths, sweat therapy with a it's gotta be far infrared, not just like a steam sauna, and then the right binder. That would be kind of the general overview.
Rebecca Twomey:What kind of tests would you perform to find out what kind of issues? You know, it we talked about the Dutch test, but Dutch doesn't tell you your you probably have different kinds of tests for this.
Dr. Vaughn:Yeah, Dutch is just steroid hormones. Um, so yeah, we do blood, we do urine, we do hair. It depends on what it is, and it'll tell you all the tests. I think hair is the most accurate for metals and radioactive elements, but we also check urine metals too, and I compare. Um, but urine will check your mold, all your molds. Urine will check all your environmental toxins. Uh there's a test we do that checks over 170 environmental toxins. One urine sample. Actually, one urine sample, you can check all your molds, all your environmental toxins, your heavy metals, your radioactive elements, whole bunch of stuff. It's really cool.
Rebecca Twomey:Very interesting. I have three questions that are stemming from this. One of them is a silly one. Okay. Have you seen how people will take a slice of a potato and put it on the bottom of their feet and then put socks on before they go to bed to pull out toxins? Have you heard of this?
Dr. Vaughn:Heard of it. I don't know much about it.
Rebecca Twomey:I haven't really doing anything.
Dr. Vaughn:I honestly don't know.
Rebecca Twomey:Okay, okay.
Dr. Vaughn:Sorry.
Rachel Smith:I thought that was just a fun like old, like hundred-year-old old wives' tale. If you're I don't know, maybe it works.
Rebecca Twomey:It's more of if you have a cold or something, they'll say, take the potatoes, put it on the bottom of your kid's feet, put socks, put socks on them. I don't know. Yeah, look up the potato thing. It's it's a it's a whole thing. Let me know what you come up with. Um, my other question is how do you feel about TRS spray? I know that's a pretty common one that people would love for heavy metals. Do you use that too?
Dr. Vaughn:Don't use TRS.
Rebecca Twomey:Uh or whatever that's called. Um I guess TRS is a a brand, isn't it?
Dr. Vaughn:It's a zeolite.
Rebecca Twomey:Yes. There you go. A Zeolite spray.
Dr. Vaughn:Zeolite spray.
Rachel Smith:So it's not just fancy water.
Dr. Vaughn:No, no, it's not really large. Um, and I'm not, you know, I'm never gonna, I'm just gonna be honest. I'm never gonna bash another company. I think there's a lot of people doing a lot of great things out there. I have heard nothing but positive things from TRS. I work with a lot of moms and I've seen it help a lot of children. So I'm all about it. I'm like, great, rock the TRS. That's awesome. Now, if your kid has a lot of serious, serious metal or radioactive element issues, they can have, you know, a negative response or you might have to go really slow. Uh, but it it works. It's a zeolite. I use a different one. It's called Vitality Detox Drops, and it's it's very similar. It's a it's a zeolite because it's a zealite.
Rebecca Twomey:Well, I am going, I'm adding all this stuff to the show to the show notes. I will be emailing you if I have questions about if I didn't type it correctly. So if you're listening, check the show notes. Well, I'll have some links to Dr. Vaughn's store and some of the other resources that he mentioned here. Now, I did want to circle back to PCOS. Now it is a diagnosis of sorts that people receive, whether, you know, that is what the actual I we we don't have to get into the actual details of of what it is necessarily, you know, all the the ins and outs of it, unless you want to. But it's something that I personally have many friends who are have trouble conceiving and have issues. And they say, My doctor told me I have PCOS, that's why I'm not getting my periods. The protocol that you just shared to me sounded like it would solve this issue for many of these women. I know diet is a big thing. Um, I have a good friend who told me, like, I I got my period back by I stopped eating sugar. You know, I stopped eating a lot of processed foods and being healthier about my food choices, and I was able to regulate my periods again. But I'm just curious if you run into this specific, you know, the specific thing with women.
Dr. Vaughn:Yeah. Yep, super common, unfortunately. Uh so yeah, uh a lot a lot with that, that the whole estrogen thing. You know, you definitely good to get checked out, see if you're estrogen dominant, see if that plays a role. If you look at PCOS, there's all kinds of different reasons. There's different actually types of PCOS.
Rebecca Twomey:Okay, interesting.
Dr. Vaughn:Depending on the cause, it's not all the same thing. Uh, I did a whole class on my YouTube channel called cis, ovaries, and tumor cis, ovaries and tumors, cis, tumors, and fibroids, I think it's called. And and it was more of an explanation of why these things occur. Because a cyst or a tumor or a fibroid is an abnormal growth. So, why does the body get an abnormal growth? So the body gets an abnormal growth because there's a toxicity, because there's a problem. Uh, a lot of research shows parasites are a common cause. Um any kind of toxin, metals, mold, all these things can cause uh an abnormal growth in the body, but that's what a cyst is, it's an abnormal growth. So uh I would definitely say 100% get off of any birth control. Um, people think IUDs are better. I have heard IUD nightmares for many of my patients. Um, copper toxicity will destroy a woman's hormones. Um, so I I've seen super, super copper toxic women from taking IUDs. They are devastating. Um, I don't care what any doctor says, it's not safe. It's it's complete medical.
Rebecca Twomey:I agree with you and can relate. I had a copper IUD and developed copper toxicity myself.
Dr. Vaughn:There you go. I didn't even know that. So uh so I just wanted to be clear on that, that I think that's important to get off of those things. Uh so yeah, so with ovarian cysts, um, so I mentioned, yeah, the estrogen, doing a Dutch test, uh, getting rid of birth control and IUDs. I want to touch on something that I think we talked about diet, but I want to touch on something that I think is really cool. Uh, you can look at this with PCOS or endometriosis, um, but I think this is not talked about a lot. And I want to talk about it just because I want to see people get better. And, you know, that's kind of my heart. Actually, my my heart and you know, target market in the business world, but like my heart is moms love the Lord, any mom, you know, even if they don't love the Lord, of course. But it's like I want moms to be well because I believe they're so crucial to the foundational family support network of our world. And they they often get you know overlooked, and you know, they're doing all these things and they're not seeing, and they're trying to raise their kids, and they're trying to raise their husbands. And no, that was a joke. Um, just it's true, though.
Rachel Smith:It's true.
Dr. Vaughn:They're so exhausted, and like who's watching out for them? Who's taking care of the moms? Because the husband's often working, he's making a living, and mom is just getting whooped. So I really have a heart to see moms get well. That's really my passion. So I think it's important to talk about the importance of cleansing the vaginal area. And uh, I've had women do so many different things over the years that you can insert probiotics into the vagina before bed. Uh, there's these little pearls that you can use. Uh, women will do garlic cloves. Um, there's different things you can use as a douche. Um a couple of things that really, really work that I just really want to highlight. Crazy story of a girl in her 20s having horrific endometriosis, multiple surgeries, didn't get better, completely healed it with ozone therapy, doing ozone vaginally. So you can do yeah, right. Um, you need uh equipment. So uh yeah, so ozone, very, very powerful because oxygen heals everything. So breath of life, if you want to get back to the foundational, like Genesis 2:7, the Lord formed man out of the dust of the earth and breathed in him the breath of life. So oxygen is the most important element in our world, and so you can heal a lot of things with oxygen. So ozone therapy vaginally can remove like it can heal ovarian cysts, it can reverse endometriosis. Um, so that's something you can look into. We have ozone machines and ozone bubblers, and um, I could tell all kinds of fun ozone stories. I injected my wife's tonsils with ozone one time, and she spit up tonsil stones. Oh so yeah, cool stuff. Umzone therapy.
Rebecca Twomey:That sounds like that must have been felt very relieving for her.
Dr. Vaughn:Oh, yeah, yeah. She's yeah, she's got a lot of lymph stuff going on. Okay, so here's something that anyone can do that's super easy, that's super common in Asian culture. Oh, are you gonna talk about steaming? Yes, Yoni Steam, come on.
Rebecca Twomey:I was wondering if you're gonna go to the Yoni Steam.
Dr. Vaughn:It works, it works.
Rebecca Twomey:So, what is that?
Dr. Vaughn:Uh, so basically, you sit on um, you can buy something like on Amazon or whatever that it's basically like sitting on a toilet seat without the toilet. So, like you're sitting on a toilet seat, and underneath you have just a pot of boiling water, or better, you would add herbs into it. So we have two formulas, and I'll tell you what those are. And we even have a document we can send people on how to do a yoni steam bath. Um, but we have a tea called a healing sits bath. And if you research like yoni steam and what women are using to help with cysts and these kind of different issues, or just any kind of vaginal infection, anything like that, it's all in that healing sits bath tea. And then we have another one called healing tea. And the healing tea is very heavy in microbial herbs, so antimicrobial herbs, um, like black walnut and different things. So I would look into doing a yoni steam, and it's just basically a pot of boiling water, you add the herbs into it, you sit on the thing, and you just let the steam and the herbs basically cleanse that whole area, and it's phenomenal. I mean, you can uh shockingly reverse so many conditions that seem so scary and seem so complicated with heat and cold, with steam therapy, hot therapy, sauna therapy, cold therapy, cold plunges, cold baths. There's whole books written on this stuff, but it's like it's kind of like it's been lost. So I really want to highlight the Yoni steam because uh any woman can do that and successfully cleanse and heal anything going on in that area. You know, you think of doctors doing these uh pap smears and scaring the bejebis out of women's like you have HPV and All this fear-based stuff, and they have want them to do a DNC and all these like horrific procedures that are completely unnecessary. And just really what we need to do is just some basic like health care maintenance of the vaginal area because it's important.
Rebecca Twomey:Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. That's fascinating. Yeah, Rachel, I'll have to send you some videos because I have I've come across this often in the more crunchy communities. And there are people that rent out devices for you to do it in a specific way. So anyway, we could we could talk more about that. I have a question for you. This is kind of a a big one, but since we're talking about endometriosis, if a woman has her uterus, her tubes, her whole system removed, whatever it might be, parts or pieces of it removed, is it going to solve the problem? Or it could there potentially still be another underlying problem that may manifest in a different way now that those parts are not there?
Dr. Vaughn:It just depends on where it grew. Because the definition of endometriosis is endometrial tissue that's growing outside of the uterine cavity.
Rebecca Twomey:Okay.
Dr. Vaughn:So that abnormal tissue that's growing outside of the uterus can grow in multiple different areas. For some reason, it's for some women, it's in a lot of different places. So uh it's kind of like does gallbladder surgery solve the problem? No, if you talk to people who've had gallbladder surgery, they'll all tell you that like 90% of them still have gut issues, digestive issues, liver issues, bile flow issues, diarrhea, constipation. So uh medical system, of course, you know, they're trying to, you know, do their best to solve a crisis. Um, and it certainly is going to help. It is unfortunate that the only solution they offer is surgery. And even to find out if a woman has endometriosis, right, they have to do exploratory surgery, like just to even see if they have endometriosis.
Rachel Smith:Yeah.
Dr. Vaughn:And so, yeah, you can go in there and you can cut away a lot of the endometrial tissue, but you know, you and I both well know that there's an underlying cause. What's the root cause? Just removing the abnormal tissue growth does not discover or help solve the root problem of why it's even growing abnormally in the first place. So, yes, it'll provide relief, it will buy you some time, but it doesn't solve the underlying problem.
Rebecca Twomey:That's good to know. Very, very, very good to know. I'm sorry, Rachel. I think I cut you off. You had a question as well.
Rachel Smith:Oh, no, I didn't. Okay. Good. I was just absorbing that all.
Rebecca Twomey:Yeah, definitely. It's a big one. I mean, it's it we talk about this again all the time in our communities. Women have, you know, endometriosis issues. Rachel mentioned Paula before, who is her dietitian. She was on the podcast a while back, and that was what led her to become a dietitian. She was told she had endometriosis, and the only way to fix it was to have her uterus removed, was to have a hysterectomy, basically. Yeah, in her 30s or 20s. And she said there's got to be a better way. And that was when she went down the route of learning about how to eat right and how to take care of our bodies, and she healed her own, uh, her own endometriosis with food and supplements, herbs. So yep.
Dr. Vaughn:So yeah, endometriosis. Um, you know, I think one thing I just wanted to mention that we didn't talk about, but is important is is liver. Okay. And, you know, it is the job of the liver. So estrogen is is use it or lose it. So um you use estrogen and then it's done, and then it has to be recycled, broken down, eliminated. That's the job of the liver. If you've heard of this whole process of methylation, which is pretty commonly talked about these days, you have to be methylating, and that's liver is a big, big part in the process of methylation. And so when women have these conditions, you definitely want to look at the liver because you need to help the liver get stuff out. And so this is like B vitamins, methylated B vitamins, SAME, uh glutathione is the probably the main one I use. No, actually, sulfur is the main one I use. So sulfur is very crucially important. Every cell of the human body, crucial for liver function, liver detoxification, overall human health. I think sulfur is very overlooked. Um, MSM is a cheap way to do it, methyl sulfonyl methane, which is a sulfur. I use a broccoli extract. Um, there's one I use called Broccelite. That's what I normally recommend to women is the Broccelite because it's a concentrated sulforophane and it's gonna help with methylation. It's gonna help with the liver detoxification to help get that bad estrogen out, or just help the liver to detox, you know, properly. So it's just it's another important element.
Rachel Smith:Is that one similar to dim?
Dr. Vaughn:Yeah, well, dim is yeah, cruciferous vegetables, you know, like broccoli and cauliflower and and stuff like that. So yeah, it'd be a similar concept, it's just a different compound. Okay, it's the sulforophane versus the whatever dim stands for. Yeah, I don't remember any of this it's a long crazy word.
Rebecca Twomey:Isn't sulfur what you use to topically cure ringworm? Or am I thinking of something else? That's iodine.
Dr. Vaughn:No, lots of things. Ozone, iodine, you could use sulfur or garlic, uh oregano, all kinds of things. Ringworm's a fungus, so you can use all kinds of things. I use um, I have pure O3, has these the best, you have to know what the best ozonated oils are on the market. It's pure O3. And um, anytime somebody has ringworm, cold sore, I mean, you name it. So my daughter, this is cool, she's eight years old, and she had skin tags. My wife has really bad skin tags in moles, right? So my daughter's getting these little skin tags, and they're not in good places, they're on her eyebrow, they're in on her top of her eyelid. Like if you look at her now, perfect skin and face, zero skin tags.
Rebecca Twomey:Interesting. And this is a liquid, this pure O3.
Dr. Vaughn:Every morning when she got up, I had her do the hemp. So Pure3, we they have all different ones, but we have three. We have olive oil, ozonated olive oil, ozonated hemp oil, and ozonated coconut oil. The ozonated hemp oil is the strongest concentration because hemp can contain, can house the highest concentration of ozone. So we had her put the ozonated hemp oil on those spots every day. And after a few days, they just fell off. I had a skin tag under my armpit and I put it on there every day. It turned black, it fell off.
Rebecca Twomey:Wow. Oh, that's fascinating.
Dr. Vaughn:Super cool. I don't know how we went from women's hormone to talking about skin tag.
Rebecca Twomey:Well, let me circle back. I want I want to circle back to um progesterone for a second because this is another one that comes up a lot, especially in pregnancy. A lot of women will take artificial progesterone or use progesterone cream or whatever, whatever it might be. Is there a way to naturally increase your progesterone levels if you have low progesterone?
Dr. Vaughn:I'm gonna use uh, I use progesterone cream. Uh there's natural ones, wild yam-based, and I use progesterone creams for different reasons. So let's say a woman is progesterone deficient and she gets pregnant. She should take progesterone because if you don't have progesterone, you can't build the uterine lining and you can't have a, you know, you might have a complication in the pregnancy.
Rachel Smith:That's what actually happened to me. This pregnancy I'm in, is that because I went into it still slightly estrogen dominant, my progesterone dropped down, and my midwife she gave me a few weeks to try just wild yam root, but it was continuing to drop, and she's like, Yep, prescribed me progesterone for that same reason.
Dr. Vaughn:Good, good for her. So she knows what she's doing, that's important. So yeah, I'll I'll recommend progesterone uh for that case. Um, I'll recommend progesterone for postmenopausal women because all of their postmenopausal symptoms are related to estrogen dominance, and they need to help their liver to get it out. But in the meantime, you give them progesterone and all their symptoms stop overnight. Wow, it's crazy. I've seen that happen so many times. Um, so progesterone, um, blood sugar imbalances, uh nutrient deficiencies. So there's certain nutrients we need to have uh proper progesterone. And so get enough protein is actually important for progesterone production.
Rebecca Twomey:Um Rachel's favorite thing to do.
Rachel Smith:Oh my gosh, I've had to eat so much protein this pregnancy.
Dr. Vaughn:So I'm just kind of giving you the main things for progesterone: blood sugar balance, um, having estrogen dominance, that's gonna affect it, stress because of the cortisol, um, nutrient deficiencies because you're not eating enough to keep up with you know the metabolism, and then thyroid, poor thyroid function. So those are all the things that can negatively impact uh progesterone.
Rebecca Twomey:Great. That's very helpful. Good, very good to know. So get your protein in. Now, do you have anything else that you we missed? Did we miss anything on women's women's health that we needed to address?
Dr. Vaughn:I had a note here about iron. A lot of women are anemic. You actually cannot detox estrogen out of your body without iron. So you do not want to be anemic. That's a big deal for a lot of different reasons. So I'm like beef liver capsules all day long. If you're ever even thinking about getting pregnant, like you should be on beef liver capsules like long term, through your pregnancy, after your pregnancy. So I'm a big fan of that.
Rachel Smith:Okay.
Dr. Vaughn:So I think I wanted to mention that. I just had a couple of notes. I just wanted to see if there's any, but I don't know. What is what do vegetarians do?
Rebecca Twomey:If what would a vegetarian do to get enough iron to not be herbal iron?
Dr. Vaughn:Uh Wish Garden has a tincture that's all just it's probably. I mean, if you think of iron, you're thinking like yellow dock, um dandelion, uh, whatever the highest like herbal iron okay. Uh you know, whatever the highest herbal iron sources are, there's a there's a there's plant-based iron that you can do as well. But beef liver capsules, I think, is is the best.
Rebecca Twomey:Amen. I took beef, started taking beef liver my last pregnancy, and I have taken ever since. I'm a huge fan. It uh yeah, I know easier than eating liver.
Rachel Smith:Way easier than eating it. It really is. And for me, uh, this pregnancy with the nausea, just choking down the beef liver capsule pills. Oh, it would make me gag, but I would get it. Imagine if you had to eat it.
Dr. Vaughn:Hey, quick story. Do we have one minute?
Rachel Smith:Yeah.
Dr. Vaughn:So I I I think it's interesting. I've actually heard doctors tell women that if you don't have nausea during pregnancy, there's something wrong. So, quick story. My wife, first pregnancy, a lot of nausea, actually had full body itching, which some choliostasis. She just had some liver stuff going on. So I actually boiled her down a decoction of yellow doc. And I was giving her like yellow doc decoctions, and we we did a couple enemas to just kind of clear her liver while she was pregnant, just to help help with her liver. But after she gave birth, we just honed in on her liver, and um, we did liver detox and just liver, liver liver. And she got pregnant again about a year later, and that pregnancy, oh my goodness, like she had zero symptoms of pregnancy. She felt amazing, never once got nauseous. I'll never forget she was five and a half months pregnant, and she came to me and she's like, Vaughn, I know that's not sound crazy, but do you think like possibly something's like wrong or wrong with the baby? Like, she didn't even feel like she was pregnant.
Rachel Smith:Wow.
Dr. Vaughn:Five and a half months in. And uh, and that was like we actually called that child our miracle baby because it was our middle child, and she was like the healthiest child, the best sleeper, on and on and on down the list. So I really think like that'd be a cool another episode to do. Like what women can do to actually like heal their body and help their body before getting pregnant, yes, it can make a monumental difference in the health of the child. And if we actually knew that, if we actually believed that, we actually were educated in it, how much we could impact like our future children from birth.
Rachel Smith:I would love to do an episode on that because I'm at the end of my pregnancy now, but I worked so hard for my health going into this pregnancy. And like I had, you know, mentioned that I found out I was pregnant the day that I got positive blood work results, but my body wasn't done healing yet. It was very quick off of this. It was healed enough to get pregnant, but the nausea I had at the beginning of this pregnancy was debilitating. Like I could not get out of bed for pretty much two months, and it was so much worse than my previous pregnancies. And I like taking all the minerals, doing like I felt like I'm like so much healthier. But what you're saying, I think that I would love to do an episode on this because that's so important for people planning. If there is anything we can do going into a pregnancy to have optimal health, because it's not only rough on us to be that sick, but like you said, to to improve the health of our child long term in their life. I definitely after this pregnancy will be calling you myself for this liver cleanse. Cause I I think that's kind of the the haunting me is my liver is not quite right. Um, and if I do have another pregnancy again one day, I can't go through that nausea again. Can't do it.
Rebecca Twomey:I I totally resonate with your story too, with your your you and your wife's story, because I was I had nausea with both my first two. And then with my second was when I really learned about I was going to a great um chiropractic office that had a very natural-minded uh family doctor. And well, I guess technically he's like functional medicine, whatever. And he said, Let's get you get you on beef liver and B6, and that was everything was from animals, so all of it was, you know, animal-based products. And I was taking that, and it I went from throwing up every 20 seconds to my nausea, literally went away, except for first thing in the morning. If my stomach was empty or whatever, I would, you know, feel a little nauseous. But then I continued to take beef liver after that pregnancy because of the benefits of it, and then preparing because I knew we were we wanted, you know, we didn't have um a plan. We we were following God's plan for children after our last child. We said, whatever happens, happens. And so I wanted to make sure that I was prepared. So I was continuing to take beef liver and B6. And when I got pregnant this time, I started to get a little bit of nausea, but I just upped my my stuff and I was great. And I have to tell you, this is I felt the best this pregnancy, my third in all of them. I'm the oldest, I'm geriatric, but I feel great in all my pregnancies, and I kind of like your wife. Sometimes I don't feel like I'm pregnant when I'm sitting or whatever. Like, I'll stand up and I'll be like, oh man, I my stomach's kind of heavy, but I don't always feel like I'm pregnant. I haven't been fatigued or tired, um, been able to just you know live life. So I think there there is something to be said for something about that liver. But I I I still need to detox mine though.
Dr. Vaughn:Detox is key.
Rebecca Twomey:Absolutely, absolutely. Well, thank you for sharing that story and thank you for being go ahead. You have another one and you have another point.
Dr. Vaughn:I just said you're welcome.
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